Maintaining weight loss

There are a few posters here who have said they needed to restrict calories to finally lose the weight they wanted to lose.

My own past experience with any weight-loss diet before this (WW, Atkins, or just eating less) is that maintenance was tricky, and when I finally regained the weight, I ended up 5 or 10 lbs heavier than before--resulting in my current stance, "I can't afford to diet anymore, I'll end up weighing too much."

I have plateaued at easily 20 lbs above my goal weight (for several months, now--been eating primal for over a year). I am considering doing some calorie counting, but am concerned about what seems to happen to my setpoint when I restrict calories. (There are any number of other things I need to fix as well--sleep, exercise, etc.--but I'm still interested in this question.)

I'm wondering what the experience of people here has been with calorie restriction--did you reach your goal? Were you able to maintain satiety on fewer calories by eating primal? Has maintenance been a challenge or relatively easy?

I use ice bricks in compression garment around my tummy and waist 45-50 min daily. Fat is going extremely fast!!! And you get used to the cold... Now I only do cool showers and I love 1-2 cool baths weekly. Centimeters are going and I'm looking more defined, it's only been a week! Try it.

No no! I use ice bricks over compression-garment around my waist. 45-50 min daily. Fat melts from all over and I lost 1 cm from waist in 6 days! Believe me wh

Boosting the number of calories you burn is important, through exercise, building muscle, thermogenics, eliminating nutrient deficiencies, resetting your leptin, getting enough sleep.

PB does have sections on estimating your 'maintenance' calories and calculating extra carbs required for exercise, if you want to count, but it encourages you not to, to eat until you are satisfied, and listen to your body.

That doesnt mean it's not necessary for some people when they get down to lower body fat %. <--- speaking from experience, I'm a strict PBer and that alone even with daily 16hr fasts and exercise (2 days lifting heavy things, sprinting once a week, walking 1hr daily) is not enough for me to lose body fat (the horror I've actually gained a few pounds). I've tried the whole cutting dairy, no nuts (I typically dont eat nuts), <50g of carb..having no effect. I think calorie restriction should be a last resort, but sometimes needed.